Despite having asked to hold his distance office, the deputy (-SP), who has been in the United States since March, has not registered presence or vote in the sessions where remote participation is allowed.
Usually on Thursdays and exceptionally on other days of the week, the house authorizes deputies to register their presence and vote through a mobile app, with checking two stages. The practice has been adopted during AE has remained since then.
This Wednesday (3) the mayor, (-PB), gave up demanding the presence of deputies in Brasilia, (PL) by the (Supreme Court) by the coup plot, and determined that everyone could vote for the cell phone.
The Chamber analyzed projects that create the National Education System and that by the INSS (National Institute of Social Security), after the target fraud of operation of the Federal Police and CGU (Comptroller General of the Union). Eduardo did not participate.
Since his license ended on July 20, the House had seven semi -presential sessions, where the remote vote is authorized, but Eduardo has not attended any of them. It has 13 days of presence recorded and 18 other absences not justified in 2025.
Sought to comment on the absences, the parliamentarian did not respond. After the publication of the report, he wrote on social networks that he is being prevented from voting. “This is different from missing,” he wrote.
Bolsonarists and right-wing deputies say Eduardo was warned of this possibility and tried to participate in the sessions on Wednesday and August 28, but the system was blocked and was error.
Deputy Marcel Van Hattem (Novo-RS) says he called the deputy to warn of the possibility of being present on Wednesday and was informed that the application did not work. Therefore, he suggested that he record a video to prove it. “If the session is remote, the parliamentarian can register and vote from anywhere, even outside the country. It makes no sense for a block,” he says.
PL leader Sostenes Cavalcante (RJ) will seek Motta to try to solve the problem and pay the colleague’s absences.
Despite the protests, the deputy had other remote sessions since returning to leave so that he could register and participate in the votes, but did not try to do that.
Right parliamentarians heard by the report say they suspect that the alleged blockade is a retaliation against Eduardo’s performance in the United States, with the threat of possible sanctions to Motta himself if he does not guide the amnesty project to former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and those convicted of the scammers of January 8, 2023 the headquarters of the three powers.
A Sheet He sought Motta, who declined to comment. The House’s Institutional Advisory did not respond if there is really a blockade to the parliamentarian, and what the reasons.
The Constitution establishes that the deputy or senator who lacks one third of the ordinary sessions of the year, except license or official mission will be lost.
However, as the Sheeteven if it fails to appear without justification to all sessions by the end of the year. Punishment is only possible from March 2026, when the House accounts for the previous year’s absences.
Eduardo took a license of 120 days from his term and traveled to the US, where he articulates punishments to Brazilian authorities to try to get rid of punishment his father, Jair Bolsonaro.
Last week, Eduardo sent the mayor a letter in which. According to the deputy, his permanence abroad is forced and is due to political persecution.
“We live, unfortunately, under an exception regime, in which federal deputies exercise their mandates under the terror and blackmail established by a Federal Supreme Court minister who acts outside constitutional limits and is already the target of international repudiation,” he says in the document, referring to.
It also argues that your situation is much more serious than that of pandemic. “It cannot be assumed that what was assured in times of health crisis ceases to be in a time of institutional crisis even deeper.”
On the last day 8, for Eduardo to exercise the mandate from abroad.
Asked by the report, the press office of the House reported that deputies who are on an official mission trip can register and vote at a distance by application in any session. The same goes for parliamentarians on health care license and for pregnant women.
